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Kindergarten
St. Mary's Kindergarten class is taught by Teresa Klaege.
Please review how the following topics have been prepared for the Kindergarten school year.
RELIGION
The Faith First kindergarten religion instruction includes such concepts as: recognizing that God made each person different and that God loves all people. Students listen to stories about Jesus and the Bible and participate in discussions relating these teachings to themselves and their families. Kindergartners are taught that they are part of God's family and the church family. They are also taught to view the Catholic church as one of the communities to which they belong. Some of the activities used to reinforce these concepts are singing, games, drama, and art/crafts.
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LITERACY
In Kindergarten, students will focus on developing reading readiness skills including upper/lower case letter recognition letter sound written alphabet rhyming sequencing, opposites, word recognition, and a wide variety of reading materials and genres.
Kindergartners will:
- Use strategies such as phonics, patterns, and vocabulary skills to make sense of a story.
- Retell a story.
- Express ideas in complete sentences.
- Predict and make connections to personal experiences.
- Identify components of a story including the problem, solution, and main characters.
- Discuss genres and the main idea of a story.
- Attend to a listening activity for an age-appropriate amount of time.
Macmillan McGraw-Hill is the text used.
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MATHEMATICS
Students will:
- Name and identify the characteristics of geometrical figures (circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles).
- Create and interpret data from graphs.
- Solve addition and subtraction problems.
- Count to 100 by 1's and 10's.
- Measure using various tools and units.
- Create and identify patterns.
Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley MATH is the text used.
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SCIENCE
Science at the kindergarten level will include skill building in the following areas: graphing, predicting, measurement, patterning, magnification, magnetism, sorting, categorization, comparison, and planning. The kindergartners will apply developing and learned skills to study the following content areas: natural science, plants, animals, space/sky, five senses, living and nonliving things, and life cycles.
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SOCIAL STUDIES
Kindergartners are growing in their sense of the world around them and will participate in a study of the self, immediate family, and their neighborhood. Social studies concepts will expand to include: customs, holidays, other cultures, American symbols, presidents, and the Pledge of Allegiance, the voting process, maps, globes, and the difference between past, present and future.
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SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL SKILLS
Some of the personal skills to be developed in kindergarten are: cooperation, respect for self and others, service, pro-social emotional expression, pro-social behavior, involvement in small and large group activities, team work, self control, problem solving, and independence.
Kindergarten students will practice and develop skills such as:
- Listening attentively,
- Caring appropriately for school and personal property, using words to resolve conflict,
- Following multi-step directions, and completing tasks.
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MUSIC
St. Mary's music is taught by April Myers.
In kindergarten, students focus mainly on singing and keeping a steady beat. They work on matching pitches that they hear, identifying fast and slow, and the difference between sounds and silences. Students play musical games and instruments to reinforce special relationship, movement, creative expression, and music appreciation.
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION
St. Mary's physical education is taught by Susan Bassie.
The physical education curriculum has four focus areas: locomotor skills, nonlocomotor skills, manipulative skills, and physical fitness. Students learn how to hop, gallop, slide, balance, and bounce a ball. In addition, they begin to learn about the importance of physical fitness through daily stretching routines. Also, students will begin to understand special awareness and relationships to objects and people. Students are expected to demonstrate safe movement in physical activities.
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COMPUTERS/TECHNOLOGY
St. Mary's computers/technology is taught
by Sharon Swanke.
Kindergarten computer/technology curriculum focuses on introducing the students to computers and technology. Students will learn basic terminology along with age-appropriate software.
Students will learn how to open, exit, print, and use the basic tools in KidPix.
The basics of word processing and the Internet are introduced.
Keyboarding skills are introduced and the focus areas are: using both hands when typing, using proper typing posture, and using the mouse proficiently.
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